analyze Point of View using primary and secondary sources

1. The Old World and New
World Collide
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/djdyer/new-world-meets-old-worldv3dyer

2. List at least 1 movie
that depicts alien
and human
interaction. How do
they interact?

3. Europe
Americas

4. Interaction Between
Worlds
1450 - Large parts of the world
remained isolated from one
another.
1492 - Christopher Columbus
made his first voyage to the
"New World“
1513-The Spanish Requirement
– read to the natives (in Latin or
Spanish) explaining Spain’s
divine right to conquer and
control and coerce the natives
to convert

5. Interactions Between Worlds
MINE!
MINE!MINE!
I love GOL

6. Christopher Columbus
1451-1506
Hmmm…
Am I a good guy or
a bad guy… or both?

8. John Vanderlyn’s, Landing of
Columbus
1. What do you see in the painting?
2. How does the artist depict the people who are landing? How does he view them?
Use evidence to support your response.
3. How does the artist depict the land and the people in the background? How does he
view them?
4. Is this a primary or secondary source? Explain.

10. History not taught
is history forgot…

11. Estimates btw 8-145 million; 90-95% killed by disease,
famine, government policy (reservations, killing buffalo, etc)

12. Columbus:
SAINT OR SINNER?

13. Columbus:
SAINT OR SINNER?
“we now honor
Columbus…we are right in
so honoring him because
no other sailor had the
persistence, knowledge,
and sheer guts…”
-Samuel Eliot Morison

14. Impact on Native
People
Enslavement– many died in
captivity so Columbus changed
his tactics and required that
each Native American 14 and
older to collect a certain
quantity of gold every 3 months
in return for a copper token
hung around their necks.
Natives found without copper
tokens had their hands cut off
and bled to death
Destruction of traditional
cultures and ways of life
Exchange of new plants,
animals and diseases

15. Define the Columbian Exchange
What types of items were “exchanged” during the
Columbian Exchange?
Was the Columbian Exchange a positive or negative
occurrence? Explain.

18. The Introduction of New Diseases
• Native Americans had no natural __________ to European diseases
• _______________, measles, influenza, malaria killed millions
• Population of may have decreased by more than ______ percent in
the 2 years following first contact with Europeans
Devastating Impact
• Native American ____________________ continued to decline for
centuries
• Warfare, suicide, government policy and _________________ are
contributing factors for the decline in Native American population

19. The Introduction of New Diseases
• Native Americans had no natural resistance/immunity to European
diseases
• Smallpox, measles, influenza, malaria killed millions
• Population of may have decreased by more than 50% percent in the
2 years following first contact with Europeans
Devastating Impact
• Native American population continued to decline for centuries
• Warfare, suicide, government policy and disease are contributing
factors for the decline in Native American population

20. Columbian Exchange
of the Future?
Who will be the
next Columbus?
Where will this
meeting take place?
What will be
exchanged?
What consequences
will manifest?